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27 Sep

The Power Struggle That Imploded Megan Ellison’s Video Game Unit

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In February, Nathan Gary, the longtime leader of the indie video-game publisher Annapurna Interactive, was in Las Vegas for the annual DICE convention, schmoozing with old colleagues and catching up on the latest developments in gaming. One evening at dinner, Geoff Keighley, a video-game industry personality, approached Gary with an unsettling bit of news. According to people familiar with the conversation, Keighley related that he’d just seen Gary’s boss Megan Ellison — the 38-year-old owner of Annapurna and daughter of billionaire Oracle Corp. Co-Founder Larry Ellison — eating elsewhere in the same restaurant with one of Gary’s former colleagues, a…

13 Aug

Tech Could Use More Susan Wojcickis

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As the CEO of Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube, Susan Wojcicki was no stranger to controversy. She once said that trying to manage a platform struggling with misinformation and vile behavior meant that “everybody is angry at you all the time.”But after learning that she had died last week at age 56 after a two-year battle with lung cancer, the firestorm I keep coming back to had nothing to do with the business she ran. It took place during a period in 2015 when interviewers at tech conferences couldn’t seem to stop asking Wojcicki about her kids. The CEO had five of…

13 Aug

Why Weight-Loss Drugs Are Billion-Dollar Blockbusters: QuickTake

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Obesity is among the world’s most common health conditions, but for years medicine had few effective approaches to offer short of surgery. That’s why there’s been so much excitement about a new class of drugs that’s helping patients shed dozens of pounds at far lower risk — and generating billions in revenue for pharmaceutical companies. The mania over these drugs is drawing responses from businesses as varied as airlines, dialysis centers and big box chains, sending stock markets into a frenzy. Novo Nordisk A/S’s Ozempic was publicized by Hollywood, where it also became a punchline, and now Eli Lilly &…

10 Aug

Susan Wojcicki, Internet Pioneer at Google, YouTube, Dies at 56

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Susan Wojcicki, an early Google executive and long-time head of its YouTube video service who shaped how fortunes and fame are created on the internet, has died. She was 56. Wojcicki died after a two-year battle with cancer, according to social media posts by her husband, Dennis Troper, and Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of YouTube parent Alphabet Inc. Source link lol

09 Aug

Turkey’s Instagram Ban Hits Women Entrepreneurs as Orders Dry Up

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Turkey’s decision to block access to Instagram has hit female entrepreneurs who rely on the popular social media application to sell everything from cookies to bed sheets.“We’ve been using Instagram to showcase our products and reach out to a wider client base,” said Ezgi Akincilar, founder of online retailer Antalya’dan Iste, which sells food products from honey and jam to canned artichokes. Source link lol

08 Aug

Startup CEO Says VC Firm Punished Her for Reporting Sex Assault

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Everyone involved agrees on the basic facts about March 8, 2022 — a venture capitalist and a startup co-founder spent a big night on the sidelines of a Miami conference. There, agreement ends. Cailin Hardell says the middle-aged VC investor and another CEO backed by his firm got her drunk and sexually assaulted her. They maintain the encounter was consensual. After Hardell reported the incident to the head of Blumberg Capital LLC, she claims in a lawsuit, the firm refused to provide more funding for her company, Segmed, unless she agreed to keep quiet about her complaint, and when she…